My understanding of the standards around SOAP, the ws-* ones, is that the don't promise standardization of the payload. The aim is to provide standards for inte

My understanding of the standards around SOAP, the ws-* ones, is that the don't promise standardization of the payload. The aim is to provide standards for integration, and those are useful, because tooling and infrastructure around the services can be reused. SOAP standards are there to simplify integration, they say nothing about the payload (other then maybe it having to be xml)